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#fdio-vpp: fdio vpp
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Meeting started by DaveBarach at 16:00:16 UTC.  The full logs are
available at
http://ircbot.wl.linuxfoundation.org/meetings/fdio-vpp/2018/fdio-vpp.2018-01-23-16.00.log.html
.



Meeting summary
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* CSIT Maciek reporting  (DaveBarach, 16:01:15)
  * release 18.01 ready to run tests, awaiting vpp release (tomorrow)
    (DaveBarach, 16:01:36)
  * Maciek  (mackonstan, 16:01:42)
  * csit rls1801 on target and on time  (mackonstan, 16:01:44)
  * dry-runs have been successful  (DaveBarach, 16:01:45)
  * LINK: https://wiki.fd.io/view/CSIT/csit1801_plan  (mackonstan,
    16:01:53)
  * new deliveries on CSIT wiki: srv6 perf tests, k8s memif extensions,
    (DaveBarach, 16:02:18)
  * trex onboarding still in progress  (DaveBarach, 16:02:26)
  * added s/w crypto tests  (DaveBarach, 16:02:35)
  * rls1801 csit report target publish date 31-Jan  (mackonstan,
    16:02:39)
  * reports expected ~1wk after 18.01 release artifacts available. 6-8
    days to run tests  (DaveBarach, 16:03:03)
  * will re-run entire test suite again w/ linux kernel meltdown
    patches. Quick-and-dirty check says not much effect  (DaveBarach,
    16:03:40)
  * spectre no idea when patches will be available  (DaveBarach,
    16:03:57)
  * Ray asks who are you in touch with at Intel ref: meltdown, spectre
    isues  (DaveBarach, 16:05:24)
  * Ray confirms that CSIT is talking to the right people at Intel.
    (DaveBarach, 16:05:47)

* Maciek on Honeycomb  (DaveBarach, 16:06:44)
  * RC2 published last week  (DaveBarach, 16:06:54)
  * release expected next week  (DaveBarach, 16:07:19)

* Host Stack (keith starting)  (DaveBarach, 16:08:28)
  * more event-logging in vppcom  (DaveBarach, 16:08:44)
  * Envoy: need to propose patches to the project to integrate w/ vppcom
    (DaveBarach, 16:09:19)
  * Dave Wallace: LD_PRELOAD layer refactoring merged  (DaveBarach,
    16:10:15)
  * looking at envoy integration  (DaveBarach, 16:10:25)
  * Florin: doing a bunch of refactoring, so we can work with both
    socket and shared-memory API message transport  (DaveBarach,
    16:11:43)
  * can transition to shared memory infra / memfd segments from socket
    transport. To avoid mounting /dev/shm in containers.  (DaveBarach,
    16:12:29)
  * session layer can now use memfd segments  (DaveBarach, 16:12:55)

* aarch64/arm64 (Tina reporting)  (DaveBarach, 16:16:52)
  * some question about the number of aarch64 servers  (DaveBarach,
    16:17:17)
  * gear arriving next week  (DaveBarach, 16:17:29)
  * (ThunderX)  (DaveBarach, 16:17:40)
  * Kubeproxy CSIT test failing  (DaveBarach, 16:18:00)

* 18.01  (DaveBarach, 16:19:29)
  * Dave Wallace: formal release is tomorrow!  (DaveBarach, 16:19:44)
  * no major outstanding issues  (DaveBarach, 16:20:04)
  * will try to post artifacts tomorrow (Weds)  (DaveBarach, 16:20:50)

* 1gb hugepage support  (DaveBarach, 16:21:44)
  * damjan in transit pls engage with him via email to the
    vpp-dev@list.fd.io  (DaveBarach, 16:23:18)
  * 1gb hugepages potentially used to reduce restart time  (DaveBarach,
    16:24:24)
  * only allocating 40mb of buffer memory by default, so why bother
    allocating 1g?  (DaveBarach, 16:27:54)
  * dpdk uses less than 2mb worth of hugetlb pages  (DaveBarach,
    16:28:52)

* Container POC  (DaveBarach, 16:29:28)
  * makefile patch (damjan, pls review)  (DaveBarach, 16:29:59)
  * 1200 builds, 10 errors, all fixed by 1x retry  (DaveBarach,
    16:30:31)
  * latest gerrit plugin retry reporting mechanics: transient -1 grade
    on retry, if it works, reset to +1  (DaveBarach, 16:31:22)
  * post-release, we can flip the switch  (DaveBarach, 16:32:02)
  * dwallace: wait until CSIT reports are in hand.  (DaveBarach,
    16:33:30)

* transition to groups.io  (DaveBarach, 16:35:46)
  * opinion: less talking more doing... AKA no obvious issues
    (DaveBarach, 16:36:00)

* Static analysis  (DaveBarach, 16:37:07)
  * hovering around 20 defects  (DaveBarach, 16:37:15)
  * last build failed, no obvious reason  (DaveBarach, 16:37:23)

* scale issue w/ GTP-U tunnels  (DaveBarach, 16:39:02)
  * interface creation at high scale could be an issue, John Lo working
    on it  (DaveBarach, 16:39:27)
  * create 10K tunnels  (DaveBarach, 16:40:00)
  * traffic flowing, create another 10K tunnels  (DaveBarach, 16:40:12)
  * forwarding rate goes way down due to graph manipulation / barrier
    sync  (DaveBarach, 16:41:23)

* SELINUX review patch pushed (Billy McFall)  (DaveBarach, 16:46:21)
  * moving files around for selinux doc reasons  (DaveBarach, 16:46:42)
  * wiki update suggested  (DaveBarach, 16:47:56)
  * +1  (tfherbert, 16:47:59)
  * vhost socket location /tmp/xxx -> /var/run/vpp/xxx  (DaveBarach,
    16:48:32)
  * Dave Wallace trying to scrub wiki ref: release content  (DaveBarach,
    16:53:08)
  * trying to remove references to Ubuntu 14.04  (DaveBarach, 16:53:31)
  * package list wrong on wiki  (DaveBarach, 16:53:41)



Meeting ended at 16:59:04 UTC.



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* mackonstan (4)
* collabot (3)
* tfherbert (1)



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